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Chapter 1
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Installing Windows 7
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connect all your other computers to the same network. The pass-
word can be changed any time after you install Windows 7.
Device Stage Device Stage is new to the Windows operating
systems family. Device Stage enables you to connect a compatible
device to your PC and a picture of the device appears. Device Stage
allows you to easily share files between devices and computers.
Before Windows 7 Device Stage, when you connected a device to
the PC, you might have seen multiple devices appear. For example,
when you added a multifunction printer (printer, scanner, and
copier), the device might have been added as three separate devices.
Device Stage helps resolve this issue.
Another feature of Device Stage is that the device vendors can cus-
tomize the icons for Device Stage, so that the same multifunction
printer can have the ability to order ink from Device Stage.
View Available Networks (VAN) If you have used a laptop, you
have used this feature. When you use a wireless network adapter
and you right-click the icon in the system tray, you can choose the
wireless network that you want to connect to. You connect to a
wireless network through the wireless network adapter. Now that
same functionality is built into the Windows 7 operating system.
Windows Internet Explorer 8 Windows 7 includes the newest ver-
sion of Internet Explorer (IE8). IE8, as shown in Figure 1.2, allows
a user to work faster and more efficiently on the Internet due to new
search features, address bars, and favorites.
Figure 1.2: Internet Explorer 8 lets you work
faster and more efficiently.
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